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		saagarjha on July 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000) Client-side JavaScript to detect bots seems doomed to fail, unless it's some sort of proof-of-work kind of thing.

adrianN on July 15, 2019 [–]

All bot detection is doomed to fail, but you can make it more expensive for the bot authors.

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